dozens are reportedly killed in the area with operation odyssey dawn in full swing as foreign forces push forward with military intervention against colonel gadhafi. the international community unites against the libyan leader put bush in france the united states launching air missile strikes against his forces join me from the libyan capital in a few moments from all. washington claims its military involvement in libya will be limited for some americans its original route remains over a peaceful iraq operation. the pentagon says could obviously air defenses have been severely disabled i'll be back with more from washington in just

a few minutes and russia calls on all sides to put an end to the violence while turning for intervention in libya as regrettable join me in a few moments for the latest reaction from moscow. to the minute welcome news here in r.t. well live from moscow welcome to the program three u.s. b. two stealth jets reportedly dropped forty bomb on a major libyan air field as the operation against gadhafi regime moves into its second day a campaign is being led by france britain and the united states on the scale not seen in our world since the iraq war he supports there is in tripoli where explosions and. gunfire happened over night. well the latest reports we are receiving say that some forty bombs had been dropped by three american the twelve

stealth bombers on a major libyan if feels now we have new information about that at this moment but i can certainly tell you that the mood here in the capital city is incredibly tense and incredibly angry there is a demonstration taking place a short distance from where i'm talking to you from men women and i saw even some children who have come out to protest and condemn the international community's reaction and attacks on libya now we do know that later today sunday the top decision making body of nato will be holding a meeting to decide whether or not the coalition is going to be part of these airstrikes or whether it is going to continue to provide logistical intelligence and other support systems the operation odyssey dawn is clearly underway which is french and american cruise missiles and fighter jets have targeted what we've been told some twenty targets now it's not clear exactly what damage has been inflicted we've been told we need to wait several hours before this can be determined but we are hearing from the american administration that they have completely destroyed

surface to air missile defense systems now those targets were happening along the northern coastline of this country that is where he has his defense systems it's also where they've been targeting warning radar systems and communication facilities at this stage the whole purpose of the art of this operation is to clear the way for trolls to ground libya's air force but we certainly understand that at this moment in time duffy is being holed up in his compound which is also not very far from where i'm talking to you from thousands of libyans have gone there to barricade him in told most present themselves as human shields to protect him and no doubt also to provide some protection to themselves there are also people who have taken to the airport in other major installations here to try and ward off and prevent attacks on the international community their patients where they think international fighter jets might be targeting now. he did speak on libyan state television several hours ago he did not speak on camera but his message which was

some three minutes was quite clear he said that the regime was distributing weapons he wanted people to be able to defend themselves against what he is calling crusaders at the same time he's calling the mediterranean a battleground and he said that this country did nothing to justify the kind of attacks that are being targeted against it and you can state television is reporting that forty eight civilians have been killed and a hundred and fifty have been injured but we've just started receiving some reports that suggest that some of the bodies that are being presented might be bodies that were killed earlier made literally being taken from the malls and been presented as victims of last night and this morning's gunfire but certainly this morning there was a lot of firing here in tripoli there was the use of and aircraft fire from am gadhafi and libya's machinery. reporting that the coalition decision to take military action in the view is being made on the premise of a humanitarian mission globalization. says every artilleries suggests

a very different agenda. it is not a humanitarian operation it is deadly war you were seeing was military material and to say that this is to save. the lives of civilians since when do these fighter bombers and listen to the lives of civilians . which has jetted of regime change this of course was no mention of the security council resolution prime minister stephen fry. and i'm following the canadian responses as stated objective of this operation is to unseat khadafi. so that the whole humanitarian underpinnings of this war. are coming entirely clear aspect is that in fact this military coalition is already implying they did.

the resolution which they themselves are forced on this and will use it as some community article nineteen zero zero zero the resolution the united nations security council resolution says to go on all weapons on to. libya but in fact what are they doing they're bringing in weapons because they're supplying opposition forces with better that's true feed of this war is oil. from britain the united states canada there with the intent of the interests of the poor friends of the oil corporations and the extension of the influence. to into africa this is not. a humanitarian operation it is a war of conquest and it will have devastating consequences or not only on own all

the people of libya but most generally. well. coalition combat aircraft and submarines based in several countries are involved in operation odyssey dawn the decision to take direct action to enforce the no fly zone was thrashed out at the summit in paris just hours before the first strikes we can talk to our europe correspondent daniel bushell who's in brussels for more on the scale of the operation and daniel we know that britain and france leading the way in the midst of rationing here but tell us how the rest of europe is also involved as you say france is taking a direct role along with the u.k. it's already employed its rough. fighter jets in addition to that it's also called planes the u.k. is helping with navy kade of libya. and cumberland will be helping with that it's also sent typhoon tornado fighter jets italy is expected to be a key base for operations naples and sicily also which is being used by

american and canadian planes among them fighter jets and sides as it is also sending six f. sixteen fighter jets to help the operation several e.u. countries are coming around and saying they will take part in the operation in various ways belgium here is one norway is another country so we're seeing there is a coming through all of the european nations on this operation. is there any opposition within europe to military engagement in libya. absolutely i mean germany actually abstained from the u.n. votes on imposing a no fly zone over libya in a space which would ground colonel gadhafi jets and helicopters wrangler merkel the chancellor of germany it seems was then pulled into line at the summit which you talked about the paris summit yesterday and she came out and said that she goes back to the operation even though her country abstained and there's known to be a lot of public dissent in germany about that and here in belgium actually

yesterday i saw the first and she was demonstration just outside where i am at the moment so public opposition is building and of course there are fears that this could turn into another iraq the west so that they're going to be very sort of precise and very quick about it but that was expected to be the case in iraq as well so there are growing concerns about that as well ok leave it there for now carol bushell thank you. several british members of parliament are skeptical about why their country is being dragged into conflict opposition m.p. jeremy corbyn says the u.k. has been very selective in choosing a convention is necessary. i must say i absolutely regret the lack of the ceasefire and i regret what is happening at the moment a lot of innocent people already died if they strike against. targets of the regime but i suspect the real problem is they're going to have to strike against targets in the cities not resulting in large numbers of alien casualties

this is a terrible situation i think there's a lot of double standards going on here because what is happening in libya is obviously terrible. should have heeded the views of ordinary people and come to some kind of accommodation with them all removed himself from office. there's been no condemnation worthy of anything against saudi arabia yemen or a martin who've also been killing large numbers of civilians totally over the last few weeks and i think that the west has been very selective about this was the u.n. has put in place a resolution calling for a no fly zone and that is obviously they have not used the words regime change that's clearly what's intended and now there's a worry that we're getting ourselves involved in yet another war and yet another conflict which is essentially an internal civil war in libya and at the same time only six weeks ago britain was selling arms to libya buying oil from libya british

companies were investing in libya and indeed libya was investing heavily in this country and so it's a very short space of time that libya has gone from most favored nation to zero and one is sort of wonders at the speed of all this and many of those now calling for bombing of libya were only a few weeks ago in libya doing business deals. ok we're here the main top story this new american and european forces have been arriving at a training base is expected to join the military action in libya operation against . other states on a scale not seen since the iraq war. twenty million defense targets have been hit in the west of the country by more than one hundred missiles from american and british ships and submarines coated our feet gave a brief statement saying the beans will confront what he called the attacks on clear new crusader calling for an urgent security council meeting to discuss the

getting to seal the operation international action followed the un's resolution to allow the enforcement of a no fly zone over libya to stop bloodshed on the ground. and russia along with china and so on that there are countries disagree with the decision by western nations to start going to york racial regional nato said return the day regards will join in the strikes on. what president obama is promising not to deploy american ground forces in libya this it's absolutely necessary he said america's role would be limited in support of the international efforts to protect libyans from colonel gadhafi but for some of there's a real worry that it echoes the u.s. invasion of iraq eight years ago a devastating consequences that could result. in the brings us american perspective from washington d.c. . the pentagon says khadafi air defenses have been a severely disabled as they put it the u.s.

has launched a missiles from its war ships and submarines in the mediterranean targeting it cannot these air defenses and as the pentagon says the goal is to shape the battlefield for the coalition forces to take further action basically what they're doing is they're clearing the sky is so that he is not able to shoot down any claims of the coalition forces and the pentagon also says that this is just the beginning of the operation and in the coming few days more nato ships will converge on a lead to enforce a naval blockade and earlier french fighter jets had carried out strikes on these ground forces and there have been reports of civilian casualties caused by the attacks and alarming reports where president obama also reiterated is that there will be no u.s. troops on the ground although there are still lot of questions as to leave the limits of this intervention will be enough for the coalition forces to just this arm could be or will they go beyond that cool and what will be the outcome those

are the questions everybody is asking and the fears are that this operation could could be something more than just an efforts to protect civilian viewing as the wording of the u.n. resolution which was passed on thursday is basically all inclusive short of occupation of course and the fears are that certain actions taken by international forces could destabilize the situation even more shooting down to the office fighter bombers and attacking other other military assets is one thing but fighting arming the rebels for example is something very different and we are getting reports that egypt's military is shipping arms over the border to levy and revels in the egyptian military as we know is very well influenced by washington and reports so it's not just the canal the army versus coalition forces this was the fear is that this would turn into a full. fledged civil war and the arms supplies could inflame the situation even further diplomatically speaking the white house has been trying very hard to not to

appear as the driving force behind this military action is what they also stress again and again that it is not just the western powers going to war in libya they stress that they have the support of the arab league older up to this point it is not really clear what the actual input of arab countries is in this action but what they what they need and very much want is the arab countries assistance so that it doesn't appear as the west cracking down on yet another arab state. antiwar activists say the u.n. resolution that sanction the attack on there is riddled with contradictions jim brown told r.t. washington's policy there is in disarray. what on earth you mean by protecting civilians. presumably it means protecting civilians from both sides because there are. suggestions of. of atrocities on both sides it's certainly not a one sided thing. but of course i think the central point is that the whole thrust

of the intervention is not just because of the principle thing and that accounts for the. for the contradictions and the holes in the resolution america think the whole thing is a mess so the resolution itself is full of. you have this thing. for example stayed very largely out of it and then suddenly when the resolution is passed it makes very specific demands which clearly were not in the resolution that demands that for example the government forces pull back from a series of towns that kind of thing so you have you have clear intentions to. different parties to make of it what they will and i think that we will see that process roll around very similar situation going on in in bahrain is in many ways exactly the opposite features are in the train for example robert gates united states defense secretary goes through. we can go as talks

leave and two days later the. gulf corporation council especially saudi forces go in and they go in and they intervene on the side of those source or similar about stopping the war in bahrain by effectively intervening on the side of the government in the case of libya they want to quote stop the war by intervening on the side of the rebels i mean the hope the whole position seems to me completely untenable and full of hope. whereas other uprisings in the arab world saw the people take the lead are no longer seen option and libya keith harman snow is a war correspondent and former u.n. investigator claims the libyan people have been cheated of the right to have a u.s. led coalition. there was no diplomatic diplomatic activity this is an absolute war of aggression it's just another war and the world should really be frightened of the nature of nato and american power attacking their own dictators well there's

a popular uprising components of the uprising where the rebels attacked there's also a genuine genuine this is an insult there's also islamic radicals proxy forces there were backed by the united states during the cold during the cold war and there is cia backed forces the front for the national review these are also part of the so-called rebels and they're backed by other western agencies like the national endowment for democracy works and personally they're so this is really a very manipulated so-called conflict the people of libya the real true free popular uprising people of libya are going to suffer the most and it won't be very long once they get done with get out and before the people the true popular uprising realizes that they have no control over their country because the united states and france and italy have again. russia has describing the national introduction to the foreign ministry as. everything they can to stop

civilian suffering korean immediate cease fire. russia has expressed regrets over this international intervention into libya and a statement by the foreign ministry they called on all sides to stop violence as soon as possible well russia has been against international intervention in libya pretty much since the start of unrest in the country around a month ago now some circles of concern over international intervention led by by britain france and the united states saying that it could only overstepping the boundaries laid out by the u.n. security council resolution. gallow for the federation council the foreign affairs committee leader has said that in his own opinion he believes that they have they all going too far with this action it's being taken resolution

a number nine hundred seventy three its main goal was to defend the civilian population but not to punish the gadhafi regime or withrow it so in that respect with think that in one thousand seventy three a resolution is mostly a humanitarian resolution so to speak for humanitarian resolution jennifer militarism lucia my personal concern is that any military operation which is conducted by the west in the arab world can lead to a very predictable scenario like all the parties involved in the conflict and they get together and start fighting against foreign invaders there were several examples of such scenarios in the history of the greater middle east so i think that we all have to be very cautious now and we all have to think first of all of that the political solution should go before a military solution we think that g.m.

has already lost its internal and international credibility but we think also that there. all of these cells solve their problems themselves well foreign minister sergei lavrov is about to begin a visit to the region he's in egypt on sunday before heading off to algeria now both of those countries of course called to libya they're going to be watching very closely what happens in the country they'll miss a lot of rob is there to discuss deals for bilateral deals between russia and egypt and algeria notice first visit to the to egypt since the revolution there in january and he'll be watching what goes on in libya very very closely to see what russia's next move will be as it deals with its partners in the region the suffering these these these uprisings and this kind international intervention at the moment. coalition's mission has led to peace campaign is one thing exactly what

is trying to protect antiwar activists. please it's one of saving all supplies and civilians. thinking behind this operation there's already. a lot of. it's probably too late for a large intervention that will cover the oil fields of that will actually has two points i think the goal is anything but humanitarian but it's a standoff situation maybe and they have to divide the country and probably. also the united states in. britain and france as a negotiating with. you and you in the eastern part of libya. also then a great chance of a civil war situation was by all of the certainly the records. in

the russians. well you are right juju to back up don't assume what's what's unfolding now what's unfolding now appears to be. a larger scale military operation and as we should be in reason was. the mobilizing foreign military against libya has been justified as the only way to safeguard civilians but one humanitarian expert says it's the perfect excuse for coalition forces to target any that has been ostracized by the world community for decades. i feel. you know it's another person. in all the years in africa. enemies of most european fellows and also the league. of people in the east of the korean thing. so. miscalculated the beginning i think

they never got this intervention school to school of intervention in the way it's been going since those all been so much in problems in against iraq but i'm going to come back in just to make. sure intervention we can. do for the kids because it's not the friend of the west in the louis illinois nickel mine is any sitting in a little and then the kids will claim to intervene. in count just because of the. problem that some of the main developments in libya. it's thought that u.s. jets dropped forty bombs on a major they've been ethelbert more american and european forces arrive but it's raining basis to join the military action there to help decide later today whether to take part in the strikes operation against colonel gadhafi regime has been the most part france britain and united states and certainly forty eight people have reportedly been killed and fifty others wounded after the national coalition forces

on the east war planes and missiles over libya about twenty they've been defense targets have been hit in the west of the country by more than one hundred missiles from the sea. and promises to confront what he calls the attacks on clinton crusader when asked for an urgent un security council meeting discussed in the city international action for the u.n. resolution one that no noise had been forced to stop bloodshed on the ground i mean russia and china and some purpose disagreed. it's essential by western nations but when the. when people cross our coverage of events in libya through our twitter and facebook feeds the correspondents are covering the world's biggest events right now getting expert analysis on developments. ahead for twitter and search for r t underscore call. from. there with more

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